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Man, she does look a little thin. At least it's not a controversy over cosmetic surgery. I feel like that's usually the first leap that the media makes when we see celebs with anything particular about their body. Maybe she needs to eat more or less, but I also don't see how that's our issue to discuss.

Insecurity is written all over this poor girl. Leanne, you are way to skinny. There was a group of my friends ( two women and 8 men) one picked up a mag with a pic of you and every man there said you were way to skinny and not attractive at all. Not trying to be mean but you put yourself out there and flaunt yourself to be judged. Oh, and two guys in this group are fitness instructors.

It's scary that some people here contend those who believe LeeAnn is too thin are "just jealous". There is nothing here to be jealous of – I know that if I woke up tomorrow morning looking like her, I would scream. Maintaining a body in that condition takes at the very least an extremely rigid and obsessive routine, one that likely borders on an eating disorder. Her appearance is not natural and is sure as hell not the result of healthy eating and exercise. It's obvious she has a problem, whether it's food obsession, exercise compulsion, or an eating disorder. There's no way you can stay looking like that and not be doing something extremely drastic.

So this article is back for the second time this week...here goes:
Id hit it...no i mean literally for being a homewrecker. That guy is going to leave her any day now since her looks are bombing fast with no real means of income in her future...other than his.
PS. eat a few pizzas you skinny girl

Anyone remember Calista Flockhart? Couldn't understand the fuss then,especially after seeing her do one hand pullups .LeAnn just looks healthy, though maybe not a bodybuilder. Probably looks better than 95 out of 100 that criticize her appearance though.

She looks way better now than when she was chubby. Why does everyone suspect eating disorder when someone is just a few pounds underweight. Eating disorders come in all sizes and shapes and most of the fatties that are saying she is too skinny are obsessed with weight and food themselves. Leave her alone everyone is different, I don't think she is dangerously skinny. She looks like she has been working out.

Speaking AS A FAT PERSON who has previously been thin: LAR looks more or less what I've become accustomed to as being 'normal'. All of my aunts were 5'7-5'10 and not a single one of them weighed more than 130lbs. My grandmother was the same until she hit her 60's. My mother was until her husband passed away: She consoled herself with food.

Personally, I am 5'7. Until I got married and moved away (along with a huge lifestyle change that came with medical issues NOT related to my size of the time) I was all of 130-135lbs. Supposedly this is underweight for someone my height, but honestly, I was active, I ate plenty of healthy, local foods and stayed outside from 10AM until dark.

For those of you bellowing about how it's only the "fatties" and the "uglies" going on about LAR's size because they think being fat is the norm, I think you might be mistaking.

I think it looks more disturbing to some because they honestly don't find it attractive, just as I don't find a 200pound body builder in contest condition attractive. It sickens me, not because he is unhealthy, but because it's not something I like. I say that a body builder in contest shape *looks* unhealthy because their BF% is too low. It makes me shudder to think about the things that tearing down to that kind of % must be doing to their body.

It's the same with this young woman, I personally think her BF% must be rather low... but not *too* low because... Well, You can see she has abs, but there's not enough definition in them to consider a minuscule BF%.

Personal opinion from a local fattie: She looks fine. I don't think she's all that attractive to begin with, and no, I don't think her body size is unusual.

Lloyd, if that picture of her looks perfectly fit to you, maybe it's time for you to get your eyes examined. She is freakishly skinny. And, as you say, maybe I'm a little overweight, but I'm over 70 years old, not under 30.

She is NOT "naturally lean". Has anyone actually seen pictures of her over the years? She used to be a healthy weight and looked normal – nothing like the way she looks now. This is fairly typical obsessive-compulsive behavior on the part of cheaters for whom the other man or woman becomes like a drug. What she's doing is frantically trying to look as good as she can so that her drug (philandering husband) doesn't leave her like he left his last wife. It's fear-based. Her defensiveness is a result of her denial, rationalization, and lack of self-awareness.

I wonder how many of you saying that she's in shape, and those that don't believe it are fatties...are fatties themselves? I'd much rather be myself (bit on the chunky side) then to look like she does. To me, it's disgusting. You can be thin, in shape, and not look like that.

Fat people think she is scary skinny... America has become so fat that when someone cares enought to be in shape and take care of themselves they are considered freaks and unhealthy... It is you fat people that are scary fat...!

In the photo above she looks skinny. She once was rather plump. Seems like she has gone and done a 180 plus! Why would someone post a photo of themselves at the beach! That is pretty self-centered and showing a lot of egotism. Her head has always looked too big for her body. Now that she is skinny she is beginning to look like an alien! She can go around talking all she wants about "abs" and being in the best of health, but the reality of it is look at her shoulders, arms and breast bone. Then look at her legs. Before she became well known is when she probably looked the best. She had some meat on her bones and look pretty good. I have nothing against heavy people or thin people. The problem lies in the extremes of heavy and thin. In my opinion, she is too thin. If you go to this site you can see what she looked like now and then.. http://connect.in.com/leann-rimes/images-leann-rimes-foto-0-leann-rimes-foto-leann-rimes-1-892777400498.html When did she have the fakes put in? Photo #6 is a good look. I don't see any abs just a little tummy and some ribs. However, if she is fine with it and her husband doesn't care, then its her life.

look, love. technically, there may be abs in that picture, but it's sure no ripped six-pack. what is being commented on is not "abs" it is unhealthy skinny bones sticking out of skin. it has been a stressful year, i'm sure, but you really need to eat a little something. your once sweet face now looks very hawkish. honey, most women are not supposed to look like that. i hope your new husband is being supportive.

I was just gonna say that! I bet shes so skinny/ "healthy" she doesn't get her periods! There are plenty of skinny women that do not look all bones. It wouldnt hurt her a bit to gain 10 pounds. I dont think women are jealous. I think it sets a bad example for young girls. She looks like shse dying to be thin!

Yum yum gimme some! LeAnn, you are one hot babe!!! Pay no attention to the ignorant imbeciles who are so accustomed to staring at blubber all day that they moronically see you as too thin, when the reality is that every woman should be as thin and fit and HEALTHY are you are.

I can't believe how awful people can be. You can't be overweight, people think that it's ok to say awful things about the looks and perceived habits of anyone who is even slightly larger than a size 4. But then, god forbid you are a skinny person, who might possibly maybe, potentially be anorexic, people feel like they can just say whatever they want about you too. So really, there is no safe weight or body type to be when you are a woman, somebody somewhere is going to have something awful to say about you and feel like it is justified. And god forbid you pass the age of 40, then a whole new world of insults is opened up for you. I couldn't believe the things people said about Cindy Crawford. People need to remember the old saying that if you can't say something nice don't say anything at all or that people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. I guess all you people that have nasty things to say are just too perfect for words, and all of you throwing back handed complements saying anyone who insults celebrity X must be ugly or fat sound like wonderful people to be around too. Basically everyone who takes the time to make an awful comment about someone else seems petty and nasty no matter if it is directed to other posters or to the celebrity.

She looks perfectly healthy and in fine, athletic shape. She has the body of an elite athlete – muscular and toned. She'd be too skinny if she didn't have the muscle mass, but that simply is not the case.

Yes, being overweight is unhealthy, but so is being underweight. People discriminate much more toward overweight people, but that doesn’t mean that being extremely skinny is a healthy alternative. OBVIOUSLY, LeAnn Rimes is way underweight for her height and her natural body weight. If you can’t see that then your perception of reality is really skewed.

She is too skinny.... and entirely too condescending – as if her fan base do not know the difference between the abdominus and the ribs or hip joints – wow, what an ego. Call me love and I'll slap you down !!

I don't care about celebrities' weight issues. She looks great in the above pic. She looks odd in the bikini pics – somewhere around the pelvic area there are weird concave shadowy bits, and her shoulders and elbows are obviously meant to have bigger arms between them, but...it's her body...it's her life.

Seriously, she looks good. She's maybe 5 or 10lbs to thin. Over 2/3rds of Americans are obese and they don't know what normal should be. The fact is she looks much better is and is healthier than those who are overweight.

Well, I am the first to compliment another owman on whatever asset she has, be it her abs, her hair, her legs, whatever... I am not a jealous person, and no I'm not overweight – just 5'2" and 110lbs....however i have to agree, she does look scary skinny, (been there) and those don't look like abs at all, they look like hip bones sticking out. Now in all fairness the angle of the camera could be off but her arms look off too. I would say she looks pretty thin, but not 'fit' on a working out scale. ;-( She definately has changed that is for sure.

I'm 5'71/2 and 2 yrs ago went down to 90 pounds due to emergency surgery and had to be tube fed for a month. So I can def tell you LeAnn is too thin. I looked approx same size as she does now. I saw her perform last year in our little town in Canada and her heart was not in her singing on stage. Several people walked out. She has an amazing voice but she is SO obsessed with this guy; I see a huge fall coming followed by a tell-all book. Her career has been reduced to working casinos and small town rodeos. She just doesn't care anymore.

It may be "normal" to be unable locate a single bone in your body without digging for it, but that does not make it natural or healthy. Haven't you ever SEEN someone with a natural body weight before? Or a picture of a real underweight person? (Hint: Starving people have visible rib *bones*, not visible oblique muscles. The distinction may be lost upon those of you who expect to see nothing but a smooth plane of fat). If you think someone is underweight because they can locate a few major bones and muscles you are manifestly in no position to judge this thin (but well within the healthy range) woman. She does not deserve to be heckled by a bunch of condescending, probably-obese ignoramuses.

LeAnn, you will always be your harshest critic despite the acerbic posts here. In all fairness, it doesn't matter one iota what others think. To thine own self be true and nothing else matters. Who'd 'a thought you can mix Shakespeare and Metallica in the same meaningful sentence? lol

I never thought LeAnn Rimes was particularly pretty, but after seeing this pics... WOW! LeAnn baby, you are one smokin' hot chick! I just love women like LeAnn who keep their bodies thin and fit, as opposed to the 75% of American females who are pathetic, fat lazy sows.

Keeping in mind that film puts on 10 lbs., I think this lovely young woman is looking on the verge of being unhealthy. It's unfortunate that so many stars have bought into the Size 1 is 'fat', myth.

It's nice to know that the majority of men out there like their women built like women – not like skinny boys with breasts. (mostly fake ones, because once you loose too much fat, breasts can't naturally be that big).

I looked up that bikini picture. She is definitely slim, even thin. She is NOT anorexic. As an Physician Assistant, I looked carefully at the picture above. Especially the places where ribs meet the sternum. Also at the clavicle. Thighs, arms. She is thinner than I've seen her before. But she's ok.
I'm glad that so many are alert to the threat of anorexia. But please... back off LeAnn. I'm sure she'll gain a few pounds if left alone. She doesn't need to gain but a very few.

She is very fit and very normal looking. All of you who are complaining are probably typically fat jealous fatty fats! You FAT people are the abnormal ones. Youre all just jealous of a person who can take better care of themselves. Youre all fat pathetic losers! go work our do some crunches. Or better yet....eat a twinky!

HOT. If she lost a few more pounds then she would look sickly, but at the current weight she does not look sickly or unhealthily lean. I'm a male, 6'5", 197, and I have hip bones that stick out quite similarly to her photo. Believe me, you wouldn't think I'm sickly looking.

LeeAnn, you look fantastic. You're thin, so is my girlfriend, she runs marathons and is very healthy. Most of these people are used to walking and living amongst disgusting fat bodies. So when they see you, they don't know what normal is.

This singer's career is basically over, and the only way she can stay in the "spotlight" is via tabloid trash topics. It's sad and I can't believe people are actually interested. I clicked on this article ONLY to comment on this subject.

Are you people serious? She doesn't look too skinny? SHE LOOKS LIKE THE CRYPT KEEPER FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! No I don't weigh 400 lbs and DON'T think that overweight is healthy either. Her bones in her elbows are literally sticking out! And this is healthy??? Perhaps someone should take the circus mirror out from in front of her and her supporters. Go look at a picture of her from a few years ago and check out the drastic weigh change... she looked healthy then, now she looks anorexic, case closed.

The fact that if someone is skinny they are sick or if someone is chubby they eat to much is part of what is wrong with our Nation.
Instead of worryng about what others look like we need to worry about ourselves.
If someone is skinny and they feel they look good. GREAT If someone is chubby and feels they look good GREAT.
But look at your own self and say that beauty comes from within not my skin. Hello we may all be a little better off.
And trust me I have family that are both skinny and chubby and sickness does not care what size you are.
So Let the woman be small,skinny,well fit whatever she wants to call herself and judge yourself not others.

I finally checked out the photos, and my verdict is that she is not too skinny, but would look better with an extra 10-15 pounds. She appears to have lost weight since she was on the cover of Fitness (if I remember the magazine correctly), and she did look healthier when she was on the cover than she does now. IF she was truly 'scary skinny' we would see more ribs and her back would look bony. But with her hipbone sticking out, she is on the bottom side of the healthy weight/bmi scale. If she continues this weight-loss trend she WILL be unhealthily skinny.

Do any of you know her? What gives you the right to tell her she is in denile when you have never had a conversation with her. You have no idea what her situation is or what the truth is.. so shut the up.🙂 You sound so ignorant making statements like this.

She looks absolutely horridly ill. I have seen her look so beautiful in the past and right about how, she needs to eat a sandwich or 12. My god Leann..girl, you are sickly looking, surely your husband must see this???

Funny all the obviously larger women (see I was nice and didn't call you fat) here try to rationalize their size by saying LeAnn is scary skinny or unhealthy. Obviously she is happy, healthy and looks great. Plus I bet she doesn't lose her breath climbing stairs like most full figured women do.

Being fat is not healthy. Big large and in charge is not healthy. Being proud of your large curves is not healthy. It is you trying to rationalize your unhealthy eating habits and lifestyle. BTW it is not a genetic disorder, it is caloric intake.

Listen to all the fat people telling themselves that skinny girls are ugly. It works so much better on the Internet, when people can't see you and IMMEDIATELY realize why you're saying the things you're saying.

D@mn LeAnn, that is one smokin' hot body you got! Please pay no attention to the clueless morons who whine and groan that you're too thin.... They're just so accustomed to seeing obesity in their friends and family (and mirror) that they become delusional and confused when confronted with a woman who is actually fit and of appropriate, HEALTHY weight. So whatever you're doing with re. to diet and exercise, KEEP DOING IT!

can people just realize that some people need to have more meat on their bodies and some just don't? One person can be healthy at 90 lbs, 5'3 while someone else would be too skinny at the same weight/height. If she's too skinny, I would expect to see a lot more rib cage bones.

Well all I see is the picture with the bear in the background. She looks in great shape, trim, muscular, I don't know what
photo they are talking about but her muscle structure in her face and arms. FINE!

I truly wish the (VERY FEW) men who are applauding her skinniness would just stop. You are the ones so many women die trying to look good for. Emaciated is not healthy and I am not jealous or obese. I am sorry but the "just left a POW camp" look is not for me....

Absolutely correct. Obesity has become so disgustingly common in America that the clueless among us actually believe that fat is ok and thin is somehow unhealthy. The obvious, incontrovertible TRUTH is exactly the opposite. In a perfect world every woman would be as thin and fit as LeAnn clearly is.

Really?? Is that the most educated response you could conjure up that the "obese" haters are the ones making hateful comments? how does 5'7 and 130 pounds appear to you because that's my size..FAR from even over weight and this girl is looking like she has something medically wrong she is so skinny. So please grown up and be an adult unless you are still actually in jr high.

The issue here is the pressure that people put on celebrities to look perfect. Most female entertainers have only a 15-20 pound window of what the entertainment industry thinks they should weigh. Its like a size 0 in clothing is too skinny and a size 4 is too fat. If they weigh over 115-120 pounds (depending on height) the tabloids are all over it, even though for some of them that weight is on the low side of a healthy weight window. Then when they lose 15-20 pounds and get under 100 pounds they actually are unhealthy. The fact of the matter is that for most women 140-150 pounds is still in the healthy range – it all depends on height. However, in the entertainment industry, 130-135 pounds is considered fat and/or plus size.

America is MESSED UP. She looks perfectly healthy in these pics. Just because we, as a culture seem to think that fat is "healthy" doesnt mean its the truth. She has muscle tone and decent obliques and will likely live a longer, healthier, more active life than 90% of American women her age.

You're 100% correct. A great many Americans are stupid enough to believe that the obesity that has become so pathetically common in America is the baseline for healthy weight. And it doesn't help that the liberal media is constantly vilifying thin, fit women like LeAnn while excusing and therefore enabling the disgusting obesity of the average woman.

It's typical and funny to see the majority of people are Americans who making too skinny and/or scary comments. Majority of Americans are "over weight," and have become comfortable with seeing over weight – FAT people. Another point, many over weight Americans are simply jealous. They are paying the high cost of health care for being lazy, stubborn, and ignorant for not taking care of their bodies. I think LeAnn is gorgeous!

Yes, you are scary skinny. Nothing attractive about that physique. It does NOT look healthy at all. I'm sure one day when you are in need of some publicity, you will come forward and confess that you have an eatting disorder.

I'm quite surprised at the disappointing judgements being made here (and on her picture pages). For pete's sake, she takes care of herself, eats healthfully, and obviously exercises. You can see muscles in her legs, arms, and obliques. This is what people who take care of themselves can look like if they already were naturally lean. I've always been lean, you can always see my hipbones and some lower ribs, even when I eat like crap for months and never exercise. Then when I eat CORRECTLY and work out at a reasonable amount (run 10 miles/week and strength train, yoga several times per week, I get more defined and you can see those things even more prominently. Granted, some are naturally a little thicker, so they may never look like this unless they starve themselves. As for Leann, as far as I can recall, she's always appeared relatively lean; so she likely falls in the first group I spoke of.

For those who can't 'stomach' a thin girl – you should probably stay in America where you're comfortable. Don't go to Europe where there aren't overweight folks. You may freak out!

Yes, you are scary skinny, little Mrs. In Denial. Your hip bones should not stick out like that, nor should the bones in your arms be so prominent. You need to get help for what could quickly become anorexia, if it isn't already, before things get worse. You can probably put on a good 15-20 pounds and still be perfectly healthy.

Well, I cannot speak to her health, but I can speak to the fact she looked much better before she lost all that weight. She was much prettier at a higher weight. I would not describe her as pretty or attractive now. She looked great on the Shape cover.

I'm not sure if she is "scary" skinny, but she is definitely treading pretty close to the line between fit and gone too far. Remember that photos tend to make people look bigger than they really are, so when someone looks tiny in a photo it is a little concerning. It is beginning to make her look a little frail. It's not like that weight is a result of a natural metabolism because she weighed more until just recently (and she looked healthy then). Plus her face is starting to look a bit gaunt as well. So while not necessarily scary, she needs to be careful.

If anything she's scary beautiful. She has a smoking hot face and body, thanks to good Southern genes, living right and getting lots of exercise, which no doubt includes lots of pilates. Her husband is one lucky guy.

First, start with a relaxing massage, followed by a "heath shake" using the body-building mixes available at any gym. Once she starts gaining weight, EVERYONE needs to tell her that "it's muscle, and not fat".

When she goes out to a club and does some dancing, her beau needs to feed her a couple of Carl Jrs.

A couple of my friends are also scary thin. It takes some input be friends to turn that around.

I think that as long as she is happy with the way that she looks that's all that should matter. My hip bones protrude the same way that hers do and my bones show as well. I recently went to the doctor and am nowhere near underweight or "scary skinny." I am perfectly healthy and eat like a garbage disposal. LeAnn Rimes needs to be left alone.

We often want to pass our judgment of others' bodies off as "concern" and that's why Leanne is being super-defensive. But I think her fans are really geniunely concerned about her when comparing pictures of her from before to the present bikini shot. When she did the cover of SHAPE magazine recently, she looked toned & fit & healthy. Maybe people around her are encouraging her to be this way by telling her how "GREAT" she looks.

I agree with you completely. This isn't a case of the media picking on a "skinny" celebrity, as hello, that could be nearly every celebrity out there. This is a case of watching a girl go through a very public divorce/and her boyfriend, going through his divorce, being under a microscope for it, and her getting more and more skinny (than she already was!). People on here go on and on about how its just "fat" people who are confused about what is healthy, but look at the bigger picture here. This girl was always thin. She went through a lot in the public eye, and she still seems to be shrinking..

Speaking from experience at 5'9" and 120 lbs.when I was in high school and into my early 30 I had trouble putting or keeping any weight on even after having children. Now that I'm 50 weight is not an issue. Time will change things for her just like it did for the rest of us.

There is no such thing as "super in shape". Either you're healthy and in shape or you're not, be it you're too heavy or too skinny, and she is too skinny. One's hip bones should not protrude like that, period, and she needs to find a way to accept that and get help before it gets worse. Nobody says she had to turn into a cow, she just needs to put a few pounds back on to get to where she was when she WAS healthy and in shape.

She is in denial! She is very sick and I hope her husband realizes it and gets her the help she needs. Eating disorders left untreated kills. She was a truly beautiful woman before the drama of her divorce and the affair with her now husband. I think that was a trigger of something dangerous for her you can see it. It is obvious to everyone but her. Please get the help you need dear you have everything to live for!!

One of the signs of advanced anorexia is when the top of a woman's arm is thinner than the bottom, as it is in the photo accompanying this story. Another is when you can see the ribs through the skin on the chest. Ditto. I didn't see the Twitter photo, but this woman needs to eat more.

How can she not expect comments when she broadcasts her own bikini photo?

LeAnne said "those are my abs"?? Hrmmm, I have more muscle in my HAND than she has for ab muscles! I don't know what she's talking about. She's a tiny, bony little thing. I wouldn't say she looks too unhealthy though. She could definitely benefit from gaining a few pounds.

I think she looks great. There are Too MANY fatties out there. People love to run to the "eating disorder" excuse when they are too lazy to work out and eat poorly. It's easier to poo poo on others when you feel badly about yourself. Of course if you don't work out and eat crap, you will be fat or maybe even thin, but flabby! In general, people in this country need to take care of themselves and work out more. Practice good eating habits and daily exercise and you can good like her too. This country is too damned fat. A little skin and bone here and there aint gonna hurt!

LeAnn looks great. She only seems "scary skinny" when compared with today's average American, who is solidly obese. The fact is that thin is very healthy and beautiful, while excess weight is highly detrimental to health and ugly.

OK, I looked at the bikini pictures. See the muscle tone in those legs and arms? This is what a healthy athletic person looks like. Calling it "scary" or "unhealthy" just shows how fat and stupid people have become.

Sorry, William, but how on earth does the american media demonize thin people? And how are obese people glorified? Open any magazine, watch any tv show, news show, movie, commerical, billboard, print ad, etc. and tell me how obese people are glorified? Even on tv shows ABOUT obese people, they are shown as miserable people unhappy with themselves and their lives. Nowhere in American media are they "glorified." If anything, being healthy, fit and thin is what is portrayed on TV. Take a good hard look at the food industry and people's refusal to educate themselves on what they're really eating before making an obviously disillusioned claim like that.

Seriously, I cannot even bring to mind one single obese person in the media who is glorified. I never see a single obese person as a news reporter, or the star of a movie or sitcom, or gracing the cover of a magazine. I'm really curious to hear your reasoning for why you think obese people are glorified....

Why are certain celebrities always the target when others are allowed to remain under the radar from the same scrutinizing public standards ? Has anyone ever looked at the "perfect" host and mother of three, Kelly Rippa????
I can't believe the mags praise her pictures with such positive captions when her sunken chest shows bones protruding; a herniated looking navel, and noted "fractures' are just a result of too much exercise ???
Hello??? Anorexic fanatic? Let's show the same "concern" for all!

I'm not a fan of LeeAnn Rhimes, but ALL YOU PEOPLE CRITICIZING HER WEIGHT ARE OBVIOUSLY A BUNCH OF FAT, JEALOUS WOMEN! Stop dissing people who are toned, get up off the couch, put down the cookies and soda, and start exercising! You all probably voted for Kirstie Allie on DWTS, simply because she was fat and old!

People obsess waaaay too much about whether someone's 'too fat' or 'too thin!' This is an adult we're talking about, not someone under 18! If you're an adult, your weight is your own responsibility, not anyone elses.

She looks great. She did what 99% of Americans can't do – she's eating health and working out. Even the poor in this fat country eat twice what they should a day. People are never happy – you'd all complain if she were a little over weight.

Leann, let's get together soon. I like you way better than that lardass Kelly Clarkson. Whew, what happened to HER? She'd be great.....if she'd cut her head off and sent it around on tour in a hatbox while that chubby torso of hers stayed home. Leann, see you soon, baby!

Thank you to everyone who says thin is ok. I've always been very thin, but I'm not anorexic – I just eat lots of healthy foods and don't have weight issues. Plus my family genetics is small. It is hurtful having people tell me I'm too skinny...I have never told anyone they are too fat. I'm a "REAL" woman...just a small one. And I am very womanly, my husband has never thought I looked like a boy or a child. Those of you who say that are a bit "scary" yourselves.

The general public is really unaware of the severity of eating disorders. People who are literally dying get almost no intervention. It is now almost ok to be morbidly obese. Some one that is 150 pounds+ overweight is equivalent to a wino living under a bridge ~ emotionally and psychologically ~ and yet most of their friends do nothing.

I worked once for a center of Hazelden, the supposed "premier" in the field of addictions. A fellow therapist was becoming so thin it was horrible. I tried to get senior clinical management to intervene and they told me I was being foolish. When her electorlytes finally flipped and she went into cardiac arrest and died they finally noticed.

The reality is that it's a financial transaction revolving around uncertain and ever-changing treatments. Addiciton, eating disorders, and many other issues are poorly understood, especially in terms of their long-term treatment.

The two are often linked, and often go along with serious smoking habits which also have an effect on the appearance of age. She looks like the train-wreck she is. Pity, but she's not exactly valuable to society, so if she wants to accelerate her inevitable demise, so be it. Not as though she's going to offer a breakthrough in virology, or materials science, or be a great teacher... she's a washed-up entertainer... time to shuffle off stage.

"LeAnn Rimes: I'm not 'scary skinny'": You are not only SCARY SKINNY, as a public, "figure", you are encouraging little girls and those, LIKE YOU, that have eating disorders, to STARVE THEMSELVES TO DEATH.

This is wht girls these days look up to as role models. Our society beats these types of immages into tv, magazines and whtever else to make gilrs feel that they cannot be loved or liked for who they are. They get the message that in order to be seen as beautiful you need to be rail thin and sickly looking in order to be accecpted.

She does look to thin, she needs a good check up from a Dr. Her husband should speak up ....unless he likes her like this😦

All you fatsos bellowing about hot looking Leann...........I'm sorry, I can't hear you with that feed bag strapped to your faces. Fattys are so gross, no wonder you're all jealous of this girl! I'd like to make her sing alright........

I find her physical transformation since becoming involved with this man very telling. It's not unusual for women who marry men with a history of infidelity to go to extremes to stay thin and "attractive". Often times going overboard in the process to maintain whatever body type they believe the man prefers. I think she if finding out that keeping a cheater is harder than catching one!

A. Im not even sure why she is famous considering that awful song she made when she was younger was horrible.
B. Her jugs look ok in this picture but otherwise she looks like she will make an awful looking old lady.
C. If anything, at least she is skinny instead of fat
D. ...not sure there is anything else to comment on considering she is basically nobody

Have any body you want... but quit trying to get everyone to have the same reality that you do.... if the saying is true that the 'camera adds ten pounds" you might check your 'healty weight' with a doctor who is not interested in your money if one can be found in LA LA land.

It's sad how many people assume that everyone calling her out on being unhealthily skinny must be some jealous, overweight girl. I'm a small women, and I've always been told that I'm skinny (but never unhealthily skinny), I wear a size 00, and weigh 105 lbs. But for my height and bone structure, that's a healthy weight for me, and my BMI is a very healthy 20.0. Even when I was five pounds lighter two years ago (and getting close to the minimum healthy BMI) due to school leaving me too busy to eat proper meals, my hip bones never, ever protruded, and I never had the gaunt look that she has now. This woman is terribly unhealthy, and it's disturbing how many people think she looks hot and healthy.

she does look a little too thin. if you're that thin i'd like to see some muscle, but instead it just looks like she's not eating enough. she certainly doesn't look like she's thin from running miles everyday. it looks more like she's just dieting, but i could be wrong.

Leanne, you look fabulous! I wish I looked that toned and svelt. However, pictures do put 20 lbs on you so I would not lose another ounce. This looks like the perfect weight to maintain. Keep being healthy, looking great and loving life - and we need to hear another new country song from you. All of you fatties out there (me included) - time to get a reality check - this is what we should look like at her age; not the pudgy Americans that we have become and allowed our children to become. Adopt a Siberian Husky and get out there and enjoy nature -, rescue yourself !

I think she is very scary skinny. I don't know of any man that likes a woman that skinny. its disgusting. I"m not jealous, i'm repulsed. If she would just gain 10-15 lbs it would make a world of difference. i don't know why she thinks that is so attractive. she hasn't always been that thin. someone has been telling her she needs to be that thin and its really sad.

So those knobs around her elbows must be all muscle, right? I am thin as well (5'4" 115lbs) and I get the odd comment from family about it, but I have some fat on my body (arms & thighs) and eat lots of nutritious foods (meats w/ fat, fresh produce, nuts, sushi). I also do not have boy hips. It's good to have some lean muscle on your frame, but not so little fat that you look skeletal.

Dude, what? And I'm assuming you're a guy, yes? Women need some fat, otherwise they start to look aged especially in the face. Just look at the most recent pics of Renee Zellweger and you'll see what I mean. Our body composition is not really designed to resemble that of a man's. LeAnn hasn't quite gotten down to Renee's BF%, but I sure hope she doesn't because it just looks bad. And this is coming from a skinny girl.

Some of you are nuts. She looks just fine. The problem is that so many of you are fat slobs you are insanely jealous of someone that is fit and trim. When I was in her age bracket most girls/women looked as she does. She has low body fat, but obviously good muscle tone. Her breasts are normal (even large for svelt woman as she is).

Skinny yes...scary skinny? NO. The reason Americans think so is because we're a country that is abnormally fat, so our "normal" is everyone else's fat. And our main immigrant group (Latinos) don't exactlty support a healthy lifestyle either. Just stating the obvious!

You look great LeAnn, people these days are so conditioned to seeing overweight bodies they don't even know what a healthy one looks like. It's sad that you can't say anything to a fat person but the skies the limit for insulting the thin.

Well said Willie...god forbid someone is called fat, but when they're thin, all the fatties come out in droves to rag on them. And that's HOW FAT THE US HAS BECOME...thin is criticized, fat is elevated!

Oh..and since this country's kids are faced with type 2 diabetes because they eat so poorly and are fat....she SHOULD be a role model. She looks like a trainer is with her a few times a week working out. The problem is that so many women (and men) are fat that they lost sight of what is "normal". It's not about starving yourself. It is about staying healthy. And healthy does not mean and extra 20lbs of FAT!!! Stop making excuses fatso's......unless you are willing to take responsibility and start paying YOUR fair share of the health care cost associated with sloppy fat gross lifestyles.

Sorry...you are too skinny (regardless of what you think) get a grip girl...ITS NOT ATTRACTIVE AT ALL !!! Who wants to make love to a bunch of skin and bones !!!! I want a little meat to roll around with.....not that 50 pounds overweight is good either....somewhere in the middle is where you need to be !!!! Go get some food into you and stop worrying about your skinny ass...we really dont care !!!

That's not scary skinny, that's hot!! I'm a huge fan of that body type. As long as the girl is healthy then there is no problem. She's no Kelly Ripa, but those pictures are gorgeous! I didn't know she lost so much. I'm a fan again!🙂

You people can't even tell the difference between someone with low body fat percentage/high muscular definition and someone who starves themselves to death. And people wonder why there are so many fatties in this country?

Women are too fat nowadays....she looks great. All women should stop making excuses and stop stuffing their faces so they can look like that. Natural curves? whatever.....LeeAnn is more natural because her body looks the wway it is supposed too.....not 20lbs of excess fat everywhere.......get in shape girls.....if your man has smaller legs,ass and arms than you....guess what.....your fat!!

What the heck was I then...20 years ago...when I was the spokesman for Jell-o pudding pops?
And just to put it out there, I like my broads young, hot, and not so skinny that I can see thru her when the sun is bright.

I am so sick of people feeling that weight is the one thing they have free reign to comment on!! As someone who has faced the same criticism at times, I am disgusted at you all. How many of you are the exact weight you are supposed to be? In fact, we have no IDEA what our 'normal' weight is – they only use the word 'average.' This reflects the median weight of a society that eats almost no 'real' food. Virtually everything you purchase in an American grocery store is either full of chemicals, also known as 'high fructose corn syrup', pumped with growth hormones or genetically modified (GMO), meaning there are PESTICIDES added directly to the seed...this includes cereals, a staple in the American diet, and everything else that has corn, soy, etc. Just because some of us choose to avoid these deadly options and support our local farmers markets and butchers, does not mean we are unhealthy. QUITE THE OPPOSITE!!!

This is a beautiful girl, enjoying her honeymoon. Anyone who has a comment on that is clearly unhappy with their own weight or appearance. She looks both happy and healthy!!!!!

The picture in the article looks okay, so I clicked the link for her twitter post and had to view it separately since I don't follow her (or use Twitter), and she doesn't look healthy. Passable healthy, but she might look a little on the sick side.

Over the past 30 years, the average weight for an adult American has increased by 20 pounds. The result: people are so damned fat that when they see someone who's in the lower end of the normal weight range from 30 years ago, they think she's anorexic.

She just needs to realize we live in a nation where the avg person is plump/overweight/obese, thin/skinny is becoming less acceptable. I get this all the time as well (skinny comments), think i might start firing back with "looks like you've packed on a few pounds" "you should go on a diet"... isn't it the same??

She's just athletic
Too many fatty haters on this forum, and on her twitter.
Get out there, and exercise fatties.
Obliques are showing OH NO THOSE ARE THE RIBS!
Sorry taking care of your body fat levels doesn't mean you're scary skinny.

So basically the point fatties need to go out and do some activities, and maybe tweet from their phones instead of their chairs.

Americans are so used to seeing fat people that they don't even know what a healthy person looks like anymore. This is what someone with a small frame who eats right and exercises is SUPPOSED to look like.

Calorie restriction leads to a longer life. Being thin, very thin, is healthy. Being the weight of the "average" American is unhealthy. America, get of your fat butts, put down the fries, and go exercise.

While I don't think she's "scary skinny"...yet, she's definitely headed in that direction. It would be different if she were that skinny and had more muscle mass (athletic body), but she does look like she's more and more emaciated each month we see her in the news. It's definitely noticeable because LeAnn doesn't have a face that looks well if she's too skinny, which she definitely is now and actually, her thinner frame makes her look a lot older than she really is.

She looks sick! Not into boney gals. Just not normal to look look like that. She obviously has some underlying issues she is dealing with. Maybe because her parents are very heavy she doesn't want to look like them and has an eating disorder. that would be my educated guess.

They ARE abs! Since when does you middle area have bones??? What is it like extension on ribs? You waist doesn't have any bones except the spine. Learn anatomy people. She is lean, and she is fit ... the only problem is that people in America aren't used to seeing lean and fit girls... so it's "SCARY", the same way blacks were "scary" at first because people weren't used to seeing things that are different from them.

If you're happy being fat, then be it. But as someone who knows a great deal about anatomy and nutrition, I will tell you that she is NOT skinny.... unless you also want to say that the whole population of China is SCARY SKINNY.. They are just build like that.

Those are not abs, genius. The bones you can see are the top of her pelvis. I should know seeing as I have the same thing. You can post your name as MD, but we all know you're full of crap. They don't mean "scary" as in something to be afraid of, they mean scary as in worriedly skinny. Bringing in race is just ridiculous and really shows your ignorance. America sees enough of "lean and fit" girls, but eventually, the "lean" goes too far.

She is skinny but i do not see anything medically wrong with her. Some people are naturally skinny. People are just hating on her because they are not thin. America has a weight problem, bigger people try to shoot down thin people to try to make being bigger acceptable.

What an abominable monstrosity she has become. I always thought she had a dog face, but now it looks more like Herman Monster. I think she has been smoking crack and crystal meth with Lindsay Lohan. Maybe they will just jump off a very high cliff together. That way, the air, water, and food that they normally consume would go to somebody else who worthy of life.

I'm a naturally skinny girl too. I don't think she is too skinny. Her stomach is abs, not bones. I don't know about Herr hips, didt see those shots, my ribs show too but I've been at this weight for 20 yrs including before and after I've had my son. The easiest way to tell if someone isn't healthy is by looking at their enery level. She doesn't look like she can only stand and pose.

It's a very insecure person who puts bikini pictures of herself out into cyberspace. Even if she actually looked good in those pictures, it wouldn't change what she did and therefore, what many people think of who she is inside. My guess is that she thinks the same thing. That's what she needs to be putting her energy into, making that right with herself and the people she's hurt.

One person on this comment site quoted the health statistics for obesity. Let me quote some facts on anorexia and bulimia;
8 million Americans suffer from anorexia/bulimia. 7 million women, 1 million men. The costs of treating this disease are so staggering that many can't afford treatment. Anorexia/Bulimia is the most expensive mental health disorder to treat. Anorexia/Bulimia has the highest mortality rate of any mental health disorder including suicide. 80% of American 13 year olds have dieted. 93% of women/men treated for Anorexia/Bulimia will need to enter treatment again. Obsession with working out and looking like a particular pop star has become commonplace in America. Women/men who work out 6 days a week actually have a mental disorder called Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Wake up!!!!! This woman looks unhealthy!!!

Body Dysmorphic Disorder is far more than how long you work out for or how many days. Under the definition you just gave, every professional athlete has BDD. If you look at Heidi Montag (well, thankfully she's disappeared lately, but her before and after multiple plastic surgeries...) THAT is BDD. BDD is a disconnect between what you look like and what you think you look like, and a neverending mission to 'fix' things that realistically aren't even an issue (such as an anorexic looking in the mirror and seeing a fat person).
There is a classification of overexercising that is an eating disorder, but there are qualifiers. Training for athletic events, working out as part of a health program, etc can be valid (and non-disorder) reasons for that level of exercise.
As far as LeAnn, it *appears* that she has lost too much weight and may have an eating disorder, and seems even more likely since she started dropping pounds fast after her affair.

LAR is incredibly skinny and dangerously so. She is obviously undergoing some kind of eating disorder. To go from her healthy look in the past to this bone creature is very disturbing and a bad example for young girls all over. Her hips have disappeared. She looks like a board, and probably needs to run around in the shower to get wet! WAKE UP LAR! You need to get some inpatient treatment.

Leann Rimes is horribly ugly and looks like a damn skeleton. Anyone who looks like that and says they're healthy is lying through their teeth (or lack of since we're talking about country music fans). I say we round up all these wanna be cowboys, send them to texas and then nuke the entire state with all the rednecks in it. Those that survive can just pretend they're at a huge tailgating party and can fry up some of their family members to eat. YEEEEEEEE HAAAAA WWOOOOP WOOOOP

Wannabe cowboy?! If you're talking about LeAnn, she is actually from the country around the Dallas area and she is plenty western. If country isn't your favorite, don't listen to it, but why do you think those who sing it or listen to it, should die? I can't stand rap or anything similar, also don't like country, but to each his own. Why the vicious rhetoric?

I had a very close friend who suffered from anorexia. Like LeAnn, she didn't think she had a problem; she thought 'the rest of the world' had the problem. Like LeAnn, she got super skinny for the love of a man she felt unworthy of; in reality, he was unworthy of her. Like LeAnn, she said it was 'to be healthy'. Like LeAnn, got breast implants. When she passed away, she weighed 58 lbs and left behind a teenage son.

Eddie is LeAnn's trigger; someone needs to get this girl away from that fool.

I think she is entirely too skinny. She looks unhealthy and yes she look anorexic. I think when the person was talking about the bones, they were referring to the bones sticking out on her hips.. She looks terrible and should think about eating!

She looks great. Most likely she has a trainer and a home cook and nutritionist..most people in the industry that have a lot of money do that sort of thing....it's just that most of the people in this country are so fat that to them she looks "scary skinny".

I used to wear a large t-shirt...Now a medium fits...the sizes have gotten bigger....I have been called skinny and wormy all my life..Obesity epidemic...Bull*^#@!!! It's not just about what you eat but what you do.....Anyone underweight or normal is in the minority today. It is a politically correct thang!!!!...Looking good LeAnn

No wonder so many teenagers have eating disorders in this country...one the one hand, you have all these doctors telling us we are, as a nation, way too fat (and we are)...but the second a skinny chick shows up, we point and her and call "freak" and "sick" and "unhealthy".

She apparently needs to get a reality check. She looks skeletal, and needs to get a mental exam. Buddha, you need to get a clue. You say you've been told this your whole life, but this is new for this woman. She used to be healthy looking and now she looks like a skeleton, so obviously there's something going on there, perhaps medical. You need to grow up, kid.

The picture at the top of this article is NOT the picture the article is talking about. You've got to click on the link in the article to go to Twitter to see the picture.

In my opinion, she looks JUST FINE in the picture CNN put at the top of the article. But the picture on Twitter makes her look awfully thin. Whether or not she's too thin is a question for her doctor, not something to debate online.

ITT: disgusting fat asses making themselves feel better about their cola guzzling, cheeseburger devouring, lifestyle of overconsumption by criticizing an attractive woman with a good healthy body weight. No she is not scary skinny, you are all just scary fat and so is everyone you know, and since you don't normally see thin people in your everyday life anymore, when you do see someone with a good body weight, you perceive it as "scary skinny."

She's not yet dangerously skinny, more like not good skinny, and that's for sure. Check out the hip bones.

Healthy for women means that there is a certain amount of padding, need that fat layer to produce hormones for normal physiological functioning. And those with eating disorders or leaning towards anorexia never can see what the observer can see. You don't have to be 'fat', but you have to have an appropriate BMI. Would bet money that her numbers are either under the line of healthy or right on the knife's edge.

Signed, JR with an RN, BSN and a background as a ballet dancer in a past life.

for those of you that think she looks "great", on this picture i agree, but take a look of the pic of her in a bikini........not nice at all!!!!!
since she keeps defending her look i feel she isnt that unhealthy but bcos she is naturally skinny and then works out alot.....her muscles and in many areas bones are buldging out very obviously and this doesnt give her a very nice look.

I've gotten this "you're too skinny" crap my whole life, so I sympathize. LeAnn, it's only because the rest of them are so freakin' fat. What is it with people anyway? Do I walk up to every stranger I see and blurt out "You're too fat!!!"?

Amen, Buddha. It's quite a double standard the morbidly obese have got going. They want special dispensation because they take up too much room on an airplane but you don't see lean folks insisting that they only pay a fraction of the ticket price because they weigh so little and therefore save fuel.

She's borderline emancipated. Hollywood and the media attempt to brainwash folks into thinking skinny is attractive and healthy. This isn't always true, especially in Lee Ann Rimes' case. If you can move normally and do life's necessary tasks without struggle, then you are healthy. Being chubby never hurt anyone. If you are happy with the way you look, then nobody else truly matters.

"Those are called abs, not bones, love." Ohhh, so those aren't pelvic bones sticking out?!? When even the bones in her forearms are clearly visible...that should raise a red flag for those closest to her if she can't see it herself. No one is saying she should eat a ton to be more curvy, but it certainly couldn't hurt to put on a few more pounds. Maybe she is really fit, but she's bordering the scary skinny line.

BTW, My youngest daughter is a marathon runner. I know that running builds muscles, she is proof. Not to mention, all the other runners had muscles, not skin & bones. You can't run marathons when your bones will shatter in the 1st 1/2 hour of running. Just my 2cents.

It figures someone would have to bring this up. No, not everyone who would label her as scary skinny is overweight. As a matter of fact, I've been told lately I'm too skinny after having my second child...and I'm 130 lbs and average height for a woman. There's a difference between a nicely toned midsection where you can see the subtle outline of the pelvic bones and having them just sticking out. It couldn't hurt to tone down the exercise a notch and/or add a little more food to her daily diet.

Like she says, she's lean. I sincerely doubt most of the people commenting on her physique would consider themselves lean. I think most people are remembering that round-faced girl from a decade or two ago, not considering she's aged and lost the baby fat. By comparison, Nicole Ritchie was scary skinny. LeAnn looks healthy to me. For what it's worth she'd probably look healthy with a few more pounds on her, too. She's certainly closer to one extreme than the other but if she feels good, emotionally and physically, who are we to judge?

She would look exactly like Nicole Ritchie if she hadn't gotten implants. Then you'd be singing a different tune I bet! My only standpoint isn't from a hater perspective, its out of concern to see someone shrinking to that degree so quickly. Take a look for a picture of her husbands ex-wife, its like they are competing in some sick fashion. I have no issue with anyone being in shape, thin, lean, skinny, whatever, but when it starts being excessive, its time to worry.

I am far from obese or overweight. 5'8" 130 lbs..size 4/6 and I think she's way too thin. She' look fabulous if she had another 10-15lbs back on her. Been a fan of hers for years and have seen her look far better then she does now just a few years ago.

@ Professor Benjamin, About the pony blog, they asked me to turn around & leave the pony forest! LOL I think most of them were too young to respond to your trolling! But REALLY, could ya believe what we were reading there??? Good laugh! Good day to ya!

how many of those girls in hollywood have come out and said htey were healthy even though skinny–Nicole Richie, Lyndsay Lohan–later they reveal they had an eating problem–we will hear from her too. Do these girls think people are stupid? You cannot change science Leann–the body has needs to function properly and to be strong. If you got sick–your body would struggle and damage would be done in trying to regain healthy. Good luck with your rhetoric though.

Sorry everyone but she looks like shes in terrific shape. Maybe its because you are like a size 10 and you think thats average. Maybe you are in fat denial. She looks great, stop hating on her and throw your jealousy and your cache of cookies in the trash.

She looks like she's been working out pretty hard. You can see the definition on her triceps, delts, and lats. I wouldn't call her scary skinny at all. She's just running fairly low bodyfat, like a marathon runner.

Everyone compares her to a marathon runner, but she isn't a marathon runner. If she was out running marathons all day then I may say, okay that is normal. This chick ain't running any marathons people. She is working out, obviously, but not eating enough protein.

That is not healthy. For all you folks out there that have such skewed minds that believe that simply because there is ab obesity problem in the US, that having an eating disorder is better, you are mistaken. She is not lean, she is starving. This is what anorexia looks like. Do you see any muscle at all? No, because she is sick. I bet the men out there saying stupid stuff are hiding behind a sad persona.

Sorry honey, I am Italian where we are skinny, and even we think this woman looks like a stray dog. It is only American men who have stupid hang-ups who prefer women to look like teenage boys. wonder what that is about.

Right on Michela, she looks dreadful. For guys on here to compare her emaciated, sick look to super obese people is absurd. Truly – to compare one extreme (emaciated) to the other (obese) is ridiculous. Can anybody say balance? She looked cute about 10-15lbs ago, now she looks ill - like an ill little boy.

I agree with Lloyd. She really isn't THAT skinny. Angelina Jolie is much worse for the wear. I don't get why we think she is SO skinny, just because we're use to seeing her heavier for most of her life. I think her body is perfect on the BMI index, as long as she doesn't lose anymore weight. I'd like to add that she can lose all the weight she wants to but she can't change her bone structure! That boy waist is appauling yucko. And don't give me that "international guys aren't shallow" crap because they are MORE shallow than most American men! Hence the reason for the lean Mediterranean lifestyle in the first place. At the end of the day LeAnn will get what's coming to her. She is insecure for a reason and that reason is her wandering beau who wasn't hers in the first place. I don't have anything against cheaters personally but once a cheater always a cheater! She wants to stay in shape so his eyes don't wander. We can only hope she's staying fit for herself and not some man.

I just looked at the bikini picture and some of you really need an anatomy and physiology class, or at least you need to look up the musculature of humans. What you are seeing is her lats, and they are accentuated by the way she is standing. That's not her "hip bones sticking out"! What is the problem with some of you constantly harping on LeeAnn losing weight and working out, and then you always have to make some comment about Angelina Jolie. AJ is slender, just like Angie Harmon, period. Both keep themselves in good physical condition and don't eat as if food will disappear tomorrow. They both look pretty much the same, yet no one complains about Angie Harmon's size. You need to worry a bit more about how healthy YOU are, how much YOU weigh, and whether or not YOU have the correct body fat, and leave these people alone.

She's lean but not unhealthy looking. I think we Americans are so accustomed to fatties these days (I'm one) that our perspectives are a bit skewed. Compare her to pictures of those Olsen twins, for example, and you'll see that they were the ones who were "scary skinny."

I can understand the concern. LeeAnn spent most of her life as a chubby young lady. When she'd hit her 20's, she slender'ed up and looked great. However, over the past year and a half, her appearance is becoming beyond waif-like. She does have an exercise regimen that is pretty intense, but intense exercise usually leads to strong muscle tone. (Kelly Ripa, anyone?)

Well, I think part of the problem is that America is getting so overweight that our view of what's thin and average is skewed. When most people are significantly overweight or obese, someone who is "only" slightly overweight suddenly looks like a more healthy person. If you put a lean person next to them, she's going to look anorexic. In the past, we may have just thought she was on the thinner side. It's scary to look at old black and white family photos and compare those to how families look today. Not a good trend.

Its so funny to me to see people talk about how everyone is obese these days so it makes skinny people look scary, when for a much much longer period, people were at a heavier average weight than today and anything skinnier was unhealthy. All those movies with the skinny princess and the skinny prince, thats biased with our current preferences on weight.

Yep – 68% of adults over 21 are overweight with 34% being obese, 20% of children 6-11 years old are obese, the rate of diabetes is overwhelming, the cost of obesity costs over $150 billion a year in healthcare and for the first time in our history the generation under the age of 12 will not outlive their parents. Six of the top 10 selling prescriptions are for overweight related problems.

Yes there is a problem with weight compared to years ago, but that goes both ways. You have seriously overweight people and seriously underweight people. When someone's pelvic bones and ribs are sticking out, that's a sign of being underweight. Maybe she does have a lean body without trying, but there's a difference between lean and sickly. I wouldn't say she was sickly, but she is teetering on the edge of looking that way.

Elizabeth, perhaps too many Americans are overweight and obese but this does not change the fact that this woman looks anorexic. Her bones are protruding and her face has orbital bone protrusion and looks unhealthy. Nobody is saying that she must gain 100 lbs. but really, she is extremely underweight. She may say she doesn't need help but many anorexic and bulimia patients live their entire short lives in denial. There is nothing wrong with being a healthy weight and there is nothing wrong with being a tad underweight. This is neither.

They ARE abs! Since when does you middle area have bones??? What is it like extension on ribs? You waist doesn't have any bones except the spine. Learn anatomy people. She is lean, and she is fit ... the only problem is that people in America aren't used to seeing lean and fit girls... so it's "SCARY", the same way blacks were "scary" at first because people weren't used to seeing things that are different from them.

If you're happy being fat, then be it. But as someone who knows a great deal about anatomy and nutrition, I will tell you that she is NOT skinny.... unless you also want to say that the whole population of China is SCARY SKINNY.. They are just build like that.

i agree completely that somewhat overweight people are considered the healthy norm now. she looks toned, healthy, and happy! some women's hipbones stick out more than others–i know mine do! everyone carries weight differently. look at her muscular arms and legs! sure, she could gain ten pounds and still be fit and healthy, but most brides slim down a little from their average weight around their wedding. don't hate! it's easier to pick on someone healthy and happy when you're sad and insecure about your own body than to change your unhealthy habits, i know from experience... i used to be 50 lbs overweight, and now i'm about leann's size. she looks wonderful and i hope she's happy!!

Shortly afterward, fans began commenting on her thin frame, with one noting, "Whoa, you're scary skinny! Sorry don't mean to offend but that's a lot of bones showing through skin..."
Rimes fired back and gave the critic the skinny.

Did you even read the article Sheppard? She obviously cares what random people think... Next time you post something that attempts to insult somebody at least try to get your facts straight... You fail at life just like you fail at trolling...

There are no bones where your abs are, so they are not bones... but she is way too skinny. It's sickening when these mentally handicapped girls, in my opinion, are put into the spot light where they can influence so many younger girls. Lock them up and put them in therapy because they are completely delusional...

How many kids have to be anorexic or bulimic for it to be a problem for you; before you can say they've been influenced by societal depiction of skeletal girls as 'ideal' weight? Everyone doesn't have to be influenced for something to be a bad influence – just enough. The questions is how many is enough? It's already enough for me.

anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, and obesity are all different ends of the same spectrum. seeing girls work to be dangerously thin is just as bad of an influence as the obesity epidemic– its just a different face to the same problem.

I don't know why she got all heated up about it in the first place...she's lucky to have someone even look at her nowadays...what does she do again? Ohh..thats right...she sings...hasn't had a hit since when? when she was 14?? her one and only ...one hit wonder! hahah

Dee... country music sucks. Leann Rimes is a typical country singer... one hit song, people line dance to it until it's been beat into the ground, then the next song rolls in and is destroyed. Country Music Fans are what's wrong with this country.

SK, her "one hit" is sure paying her quite well! How many hits don't YOU have? As in you don't have ANY hits, plenty of misses and the burgers are burning. Flip them before you get fired.
Because, at the end of the day it comes down to this:
Apparently, people care about her enough to monitor her tweets and even report about them here.
Nobody on the planet cares one whit if you live or die.

Wow, she has lost too much weight. I am not sure why she think she is better now. Any guy that sleeps with her
is going to get splinters !!! Yikes!! It is sad that she believes she looks good. When I can see she has lost too much
woman fat..... I can see it in her upper arm, shoulders, legs and stomach. I am not sure what her calorie intake is, yet whatever it is it probably isn't enough. Take care of yourself Leanne, you only have one body!!

LeAnn is just a product of what todays society teaches. That a woman has to be super skinny to look "good"...thats why we have children now, young girls, who are starving themselves and feel they need to loose weight. Because they want to look like these women on tv. Come on people...its great to be skinny...but if your bones are showing thru...thats a little extreme. LeAnn looks normal to me...I don't think she looks too skinny. I've seen much worse for sure.

@Wavey: YES BOY FIGURE TY! I'm not even trying to hate either! When I saw her waist I was like EW! it doesn't even look feminine. Sure I think she looks great, she is very lean and everything with no cellulite (can't say that for myself) but jesus I'd rather have the amazing hour-glass waist I have than that weird boy waist she sporting. She needs to be that skinny or she'd look really bad naked. I don't think she is TOO skinny at all. Will it change her bones? No.

Nope, those are definitely bones, not abs. There's a big difference between the two. Seriously, I can understand the pressure to be thin when paparazzi follow you everywhere. Lots of celebrities develope eating disorders, and then their perception of their own body becomes scewed. She probably honestly does not think she looks, or is too thin, but I hope she tries to take care of herself better. We don't need another tragic, completely avoidable celebrity death.